Letters to the Editor

By The Bakersfield Californian

I believe America has gone insane. At least that's how doing something repetitively and expecting different results has been explained to me. We're going to train forces from Mexico to battle drug cartels -- really -- again.

Has everyone forgotten the legacy of Los Zetas? To catch everyone up, they were Mexican troops trained by American Special Forces to battle the drug cartels, and are now a thriving drug cartel themselves kicking the crap out of non-U.S.-trained personnel and causing the U.S. untold misery. And now we want to try it again? Lord have mercy.

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Following that modus operandi, the United States, as a parent with an unruly child on its hands that it had raised, would simply have another child and train it to keep the first child in check. Can any rational minds see where this is headed? Please sanity, come home. We miss you.

The body of a large paddle-tailed rodent was found early Tuesday in the traffic lanes of southbound Mohawk Street north of Truxtun Avenue, suggesting Bakersfield's fabled bike path beaver -- scourge of local saplings -- may have died.

The lush grasses and sweeps of wildflowers cloak much of the damage to the small canyon in a blanket of ephemeral green. But Ellen Cypher and Erin Tennant can see it as they walk along a sandy route that has been churned into the bottom of the wash by motorcyclists and quad riders.

Even Kern County Supervisor Leticia Perez's self-serving, disingenuous and downright contemptuous ranting against a proposed ban of Piccolo Pete and ground flower-type fireworks wasn't nearly as stunning to me as Supervisor David Couch's silence and eventual vote against the ban.